{"product_id":"past-imperfect-pierre-philippe-fraiture-9781802075366","title":"Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of \u003ci\u003ePrésence Africaine\u003c\/i\u003e and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the 'long nineteenth century' and the difficulty encountered by these authors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the \u003ci\u003emodern \u003c\/i\u003emethodologies of the 'colonial library'. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre-Philippe Fraiture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802075364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802075366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Pierre-Philippe Fraiture","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014059766015,"sku":"9781802075366","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50e8f11d-eb0c-46eb-9379-e1b3ccb32991.jpg?v=1767746475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/past-imperfect-pierre-philippe-fraiture-9781802075366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}